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"Training and educating primary care physicians for rural and underserved Oklahoma is at the heart of our mission," says John Fernandes, D.O., M.B.A., president and dean of OSU`s medical school. "Producing excellent doctors and keeping Oklahomans healthy is our mandate and we are gratified to be recognized for our commitment. OSU's medical school was created in 1972 to prepare primary care physicians for Oklahoma. The school has graduated more than 2,000 doctors. Nearly 60% are in active primary care practice in the state, many in rural or underserved areas. It is estimated that the economic impact to each community from each OSU physician is $1 million annually."

Curriculum

The curriculum includes simulated clinical experiences, opportunities for independent study, and frequent consultation with faculty members and community-based physicians. In a spiral curriculum, study matter is continuously reintroduced to the student in greater depth and complexity. This method serves to reinforce prior learning and promote meaningful retention. The curriculum integrates subject matter derived from the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences to permit full comprehension of the clinician`s work and to provide a foundation for a lifetime of learning by the student.

Facilities

Located on the west bank of the Arkansas River, minutes from downtown Tulsa, the OSU Center for Health Sciences campus is housed in a modern, four-building complex on sixteen acres.The complex consists of classrooms, basic and clinical science teaching laboratories, offices, research areas, lecture halls, break-out rooms, a medical bookstore and a medical library. Interstate Highway 244 borders the campus and provides convenient access to the center. The OSU Health Care Center, located on six acres one-half mile south of the main campus, serves as both a teaching clinic for students and a health care resource for the community.

"You're a small town physician and you write a script for "the morning after pill" but the only pharmacist in town refuses to fill it. What do you do?"
-Posted 02/04/2012 |
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"The interviewer said OSU prides themselves in being a teaching school and as an aspiring doctor I will be expected to contribute to the learning environment. He then went on to ask me to teach him something non-medically related."
-Posted 02/17/2010 |
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"How would you handle a nonresponsive/noncompliant patient? How would this impact your impression of yourself as a physician?"
-Posted 10/27/2009 |
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"How would you deal with a patient that does not take your advice? Specifically a diabetic that is now in renal distress from not following treatment plan."
-Posted 10/22/2009 |
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"Do you feel that your previous professional experience (10+ years) is a weakness or a strength for you in terms of medical school? Why?"
-Posted 10/22/2009 |
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"I have had a lot of community service and volunteer work, and they asked me to pick one thing that stood out from all my experiences in this area."
-Posted 01/15/2009 |
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"The interviewers talked more than I did and it was really just a get to know you kind of conversation. Nothing about grades, mcat's, etc..."
-Posted 04/09/2008 |
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"What was your Favorite undergraduate level class? Why? Hardest? Why was it hardest? I see you had Dr Tyrl for Plant Taxonomy. How was that class? What was good about it? What was bad about it? How is good ol Dr Tyrl doing these days? "
-Posted 03/29/2008 |
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"Tell us about yourself.
(I actually included in this a description of my hobbies, and I preemptively described why I wanted to practice medicine. I think this actually helped, because I wasn't asked ''why medicine'' or ''why osteopathic'', I think because I brought it up on my own terms instead of theirs.)"
-Posted 10/24/2007 |
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"What do I think about the state of healthcare in the USA, especially when compared to the systems in England and Nigeria (I spent time in both)?"
-Posted 05/08/2007 |
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"How do you feel that your volunteer experiences such as Big Brothers/Big Sisters and Muscular Dystrophy Camp have affected your view of things?"
-Posted 03/10/2007 |
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"Have you ever had to work in a group and what role did you play in the group? Have you ever had to work in a group with someone who didn't agree with you? How do you handle stress? Do you have a good support system?"
-Posted 01/08/2005 |
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"How would you tell someone that they are going to die in 6 months? (oh and of course why do you wanna be a doctor)What was a difficult time in your life and how did you deal with it? What did it teach you?"
-Posted 11/29/2004 |
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"You're in a canoe with your husband and child and the canoe tips over and you can only save one person. Who do you save? Followed up with "So what about your husband?""
-Posted 04/18/2004 |
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"Tell us about yourself. This is almost a definite. Be able to tell your story in a condensed format that focuses on your strengths toward med school. Stay away from negatives, let them bring up your weaknesses, only show your strengths. For example, turn your negative experiences into poisitve outlooks and then deal with your negative as they bring them up, do not give up your weaknesses, but deal with them if they are addresed. Basically, be able to sell your strengths and acknowledge, yet defend, you weaknesses."
-Posted 11/24/2003 |
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"so you dance? what is your support system like? why osteopathic medicine? have you ever thought about any other career than medicine? if so what?"
-Posted 03/13/2003 |
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"Tell us about yourself - your motivation for medicine, specifically osteopathic medicine, how you found out about it, etc."
-Posted 03/13/2003 |
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"How do you think a rural physician can keep up with the ever changing world of medicine? This was hard because it was one of the questions they asked me"
-Posted 11/30/2009 |
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"1.) If I were working with you on a team to solve a problem, why would I be glad to have you on my team? 2.) If you were working with someone senior to you and saw them do something that you knew was wrong, how would you handle it? 3.) How would you handle it if you were confronted by someone telling you that you did something wrong or made the wrong decision that negatively impacted a patient?"
-Posted 10/22/2009 |
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"It was a tangent we got off on when discussing OU vs OSU and I made the comment I chose brains over brawn by choosing OSU and both interviewers cracked up."
-Posted 10/21/2009 |
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"I work as a nurse aide, and they asked from my experience with the doctors I work with, what do I plan to do differently when I am in practice."
-Posted 01/30/2008 |
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"What would you do if a patient you had seen for a long period of time was living an unhealthy lifestyle and they would not take your advice?"
-Posted 01/20/2008 |
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"No question sticks above the rest, as they were all pretty general. The interviewers did have preset questions, but their questions really flowed with what information you provided to them (it was closed file)."
-Posted 10/24/2007 |
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"What do I think about dialysis treatments being paid for by the government when they could give kids medical insurance at a much more cost-effective rate?"
-Posted 05/08/2007 |
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"Ethical question, well 2 actually. One dealt with a current event regarding prescriptions and the other asked about tolerance of people (would you have a problem treating any type of person?)"
-Posted 03/15/2007 |
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"If you were on a board to determine the Time magazine's person of the year, what prerequisites would you make for eligibility"
-Posted 03/14/2007 |
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"what is your opinion of pharmaceutical companies giving away pens,etc. as a marketing tool for the medicines they want to promote? do you think it affects the way doctors decide which medications to precribe to their patients?"
-Posted 04/23/2006 |
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"Would you always follow the law when it came to making decisions about your patients' care? (This followed my answer to the lethal injection of a death-row inmate question.)"
-Posted 03/05/2006 |
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"If a patient came in who smoked and drank heavily and ate McDonalds for lunch everyday what would you do to try and persuade him to change his lifestyle? "
-Posted 12/03/2005 |
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"A question pertaining to my personal statement - "Explain how this experience influenced you decision to pursue medicine.""
-Posted 11/22/2005 |
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"If you were the leader of an organization and one of your fellow colleagues had a task that needed to be done but wanted to say, go out drinking the night before, what would you do?"
-Posted 11/22/2005 |
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"Nothing really stands out -- it was more of a fill us in based on stuff in your file type of interview. No ethical questions or anything like that."
-Posted 11/18/2005 |
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"If you are applying for the the last position in the last medical school in the country with no opportunity to reapply, and were able to give the admissions director one reason you should get in, what would you say?"
-Posted 03/25/2005 |
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"If an uninsured person needed an expensive prescription and asked for it to be written in the spouses name to use that insurance, what would you do?"
-Posted 01/08/2005 |
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"Who would you pick for the TIME man of the year? Why? I said Christopher Reeve b/c of his involvement with stem cell research. Kinda brought the stem cell questions upon myself, but I know my position on it , so it wasn't a problem :)"
-Posted 11/29/2004 |
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"Considering how important patient relationship was with me, why did I feel that becoming a doctor would be better than becoming a nurse, whose job is highly hands-on patient care?"
-Posted 11/06/2004 |
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"If you had the ability to change the medical field in the US and money wasn't a problem, what would be your six month plan?"
-Posted 11/05/2004 |
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"Explain your research for your Master's thesis. This caught me off guard, pleasently, finding out that they were interested in my research and outcome."
-Posted 12/05/2003 |
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"One interviewer (looking at my ap, no grades available) pointed out some things but stated them incorrectly, it may have been a tactic to see how I would respond, but it made me aware that I needed to bring forward key points to make sure they were aware of them"
-Posted 06/17/2003 |
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What do you like most about this school?

What do you like least about this school?

"The administration is very unorganized and somewhat unhelpful"
-Posted 12/02/2015 | Report Response

"All administration is corrupt. Most faculty is corrupt. Most attendings at OSUMC are corrupt."
-Posted 11/30/2012 | Report Response

Please provide any other general comments on your school

"It's nice to have all of Dr. Goljan's videos and lectures and exam question packets"
-Posted 12/02/2015 | Report Response

"This was a really good school when I applied/matriculated. Some bad elements, but mostly top tier. When they almost lost the hospital, and virtually all of the residents jumped ship, almost all of the good people left. The people who remained are the corrupt people, and they brought on more corrupt people. The ONLY reason to go to this school currently would be because Dr Goljan teaches there."
-Posted 11/30/2012 | Report Response

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